• Arsenicum Iodatum is preferred for persistently irritating, corrosive discharges.

• The discharge irritates the membrane from which it flows and over which it flows.

• The discharge may be fetid, watery, and excoriating.

• The mucous membrane is always red, angry, swollen; itches and burns.

• Profound prostration, rapid, irritable pulse, recurring fever and sweats, emaciation; tendency to diarrhea.

• Great emaciation, even with a good appetite.

• Close affinity to manifestations of tuberculosis.

• Indicated in early stages of tuberculosis with afternoon temperature rise.

• Hectic fever; debility; night sweats.

• Arteriosclerosis, myocardial degeneration and senile heart.

• Threatened pyemia.

• Burning pains ameliorated by heat.

• Marked tendency to glandular affections and indurations.

• Symptoms are worse in cold, damp weather.

• General aggravation from exertion.

• Sensitive to cold air.

• Complaints often begin or are aggravated at night.

• Burning pains are a key feature.

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• Anxiety and restlessness, but less marked than Arsenicum Album.

• Irritable and easily angered.

• Apprehensive and fearful, especially about health.

• Depression and melancholy.

• Difficulty concentrating; mental weakness.

• Forgetful and absent-minded.

• Restless, cannot remain still.

• Fears being alone.

• Despondent and easily discouraged.

• Marked irritability, easily offended.

• Tendency to be critical and fault-finding.

• Anxious about the future.

• Aversion to company, yet fears being alone.

• Sadness with weeping spells.

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• Acts deeply on mucous membranes and skin.

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• Scalp sensitive to touch.

• Dandruff, often profuse and itchy.

• Photophobia.

• Profuse, acrid lachrymation.

• Chronic conjunctivitis.

• Margins of eyelids red and swollen.

• Hypertrophied condition of eustachian tube and deafness.

• Otorrhea with fetid discharge.

• Tinnitus, buzzing or ringing in the ears.

• Nasal catarrh with acrid, excoriating discharge.

• Hay fever with intense sneezing.

• Chronic nasal obstruction.

• Loss of smell.

• Nostrils ulcerated and painful.

• Enlarged tonsils.

• Hoarseness and loss of voice.

• Diphtheria-like membrane in throat.

• Rawness and dryness of the throat.

• Constant desire to clear the throat.

• In Arsenicum Iodatum, we have a remedy most closely allied to manifestations of tuberculosis.

• Indicated in early stages of tuberculosis with afternoon temperature rise.

• Chronic pneumonia, with abscess in lung.

• Hectic fever; debility; night sweats.

• Remembered in phthisis with hoarse, racking cough and profuse expectoration of a purulent nature, and attended with cardiac weakness, emaciation and general debility.

• Chronic pneumonia, when abscess is about to form.

• Dyspnea, especially on exertion.

• Oppressed breathing.

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• Pulse shotty.

• Chronic aortitis.

• Anemic palpitation and dyspnea.

• Arteriosclerosis, myocardial degeneration and senile heart.

• Cardiac weakness in phthisis.

• Oppression of the chest.

• Cough with purulent expectoration.

• Cough worse at night, relieved by sitting up.

• Short, dry, hacking cough.

• Expectoration profuse, greenish-yellow, and offensive.

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• In chronic, watery diarrhea in phthisical subjects.

• In cases of emaciation with good appetite.

• Diarrhea with undigested food.

• Abdomen sensitive to touch.

• Burning pain in stomach and bowels.

• Nausea and vomiting, especially after eating.

• Thirst for cold water, but only drinks small amounts at a time.

• Stomach feels heavy and distended after eating.

• Flatulence and abdominal bloating.

• Pain in the liver region.

• Burning in the rectum after stool.

• Increased urination, especially at night.

• Burning pain in urethra.

• Scanty, dark urine.

• Urine may contain sediment.

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• In amenorrhea, with anemic palpitation and dyspnea.

• Leucorrhea, acrid and corrosive.

• Impotence in males.

• Increased sexual desire initially, followed by diminished desire.

• Prostatic enlargement.

• Painful menstruation.

• Uterine fibroids.

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• Weakness and trembling of limbs.

• Burning pain in hands and feet.

• Cold extremities.

• Emaciation of limbs.

• Pain in the joints, worse with motion.

• Stiffness of the neck and back.

• Sciatica.

• Backache, especially in the lumbar region.

• Restless legs at night.

• Dry, scaly skin.

• Eczema with intense itching and burning.

• Psoriasis.

• Epithelioma of the lip.

• Cancer of breast after ulceration has set in.

• Ulcers with burning pain and offensive discharge.

• Urticaria with intense itching.

• Skin eruptions worse in cold weather.

• Nightmares and disturbing dreams.

• Insomnia.

• Sleeps better in open air.

• Sleeplessness before midnight.

• Dreams of death or disease.

• Cold air, cold drinks, exertion, night, lying down, from motion, from touch.

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• Warmth, rest, lying on the affected side, open air.

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• Tuberculinum, Calcarea Carbonica, Sulphur.

• Hepar Sulphuris, Opium.

• Arsenicum Album, Iodium, Phosphorus, Lycopodium, Sulphur, Apis, Hepar, Silicea.

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• , even with a good appetite.

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• , often ameliorated by heat.

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• General debility, exhaustion, and prostration.

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• Tendency to glandular swellings and indurations.

• Great sensitivity to cold.

• General aggravation from suppressed discharges.

• Anxiety, restlessness, and apprehension, similar to Arsenicum Album, but often with a more melancholic disposition.

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• Depression and sadness, with a tendency to dwell on unpleasant thoughts.

• Weakness of memory and difficulty concentrating.

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• Indecisiveness.

• Weak intellect, especially in connection with chronic catarrhal affections and diseases of the nasal bones.

• Despair of recovery.

• Tendency to be critical and fault-finding.

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• Headache better open air.

• Photophobia.

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• Burning in the eyes.

• Lids stuck together in the morning.

• Itching in the ears.

• Nose feels stopped up, despite profuse discharge.

• Shortness of breath.

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• Cough, dry, hacking, or loose with copious expectoration.

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• Cough worse at night.

• Expectoration salty or sweetish.

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• Irregular pulse.

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• Suffocating feeling around the heart.

• Nausea and vomiting.

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• Thirst for cold drinks.

• Painful distention of the abdomen.

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• Ascites.

• Abdominal pain relieved by bending double.

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• Constipation alternating with diarrhea.

• Ineffectual urging to stool.

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• Frequent urination, with burning pain.

• Albuminuria.

• Chronic nephritis.

• Urine scanty and dark.

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• In males, enlargement of the prostate.

• Sexual desire increased or decreased.

• Impotence.

• Pain in the back, especially in the lumbar region.

• Weakness in the back.

• Numbness in the limbs.

• Restless legs.

• Skin sensitive to touch.

• Burning sensation in the skin.

• Restless sleep.

• Sleeplessness, especially after midnight.

• Dreams vivid and disturbing.

• Wakes unrefreshed.

• Cold food and drink.

• Lying down.

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• Warm drinks.

• Motion.

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• Complementary: Arsenicum Album, Tuberculinum, Calcarea Carbonica.

• Antidotes: Hepar Sulphuris, Opium.

• Comparisons:

• Arsenicum Album: Similar burning pains and restlessness, but Arsenicum Iodatum has a more pronounced effect on mucous membranes and skin.

• Iodium: More marked emaciation and glandular affections.

• Sulphur: Skin affections and burning pains.

• Calcarea Carbonica: Scrofulous diathesis and glandular swellings.

• Tuberculinum: Chronic lung conditions and general debility.

• Phosphorus: Burning pains, respiratory affections.